The Wilhelm Scream

Ben Burtt is the Oscar (tm, rm, etc.) winning sound designer for such “sound effects heavy” films as the Indiana Jones Trilogy and all the Star Wars movies. He is credited with providing a name to a much-used scream sound effect from Warner Bros. sound effects library. Upon hearing the same scream used [...]

Airwolf!!

Aww-YEAH! I am all over this! Last year sometime, I found old episodes of Airwolf at VHS quality. I was just one or two episodes short of having all of season 1. I put the original 2-hour pilot movie on DVD and that’s as far as I got. So I’m [...]

Katamari Damacy 1 Scores

I’m pleased to announce that I have created the biggest moon out of anyone that I personally know (who have shared their scores with me) – 868m 4cm 3mm!!! Woot!!
I’m also pleased to bring you THIS PAGE OF HIGH SCORES. Let me know what your scores are. If you don’t see yourself [...]

Gargantuan Photo Update

I’ve gotten all of 2004 and all of 2005, so far, updated in this site’s photo section. Just click on the Photos link above. The new albums are three from early 2004, then anything since August 2004 up to now. This includes highlights that some of you were involved in like: My [...]

Crazy week last week

As I mentioned earlier, we had some worrisome stuff going on the last couple of weeks. Here’s a copy of the e-mail my wife sent out, in case you didn’t see it:

Last Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning at 1:45, I awoke to having severe breathing problems. After trying to control my breathing and having [...]

The Umpteenth Beatle

If you found yourself hearing “A Hard Day’s Night” and “I Want To Hold Your Hand” over and over and over again because your 5-year-old recently discovered The Beatles, would you really have anything to complain about?
When I showed him how I can access all the music on my computer out on the living room [...]

Bambi: Emotionally scarring?

In case you haven’t been on the planet for the past several years, the rest of this post is a spoiler about the movie “Bambi”.
My memory of having a saved ticket stub tells me that I saw “Bambi” in the theaters when I was three years old. It was my first outing to [...]

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my little girl who turns three-years-old today!
We’ve been through a lot the past two weeks… no time to sum it up here, but the good news is that we’re all doing okay now. Your prayers have worked. Thanks. More later…